PG&E Adds 85 MW of Wind Energy to Its Power Mix

[jpak]

http://www.renewableaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=49413

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) entered into a 15-year agreement to buy up to 85 megawatts (MW) of renewable wind energy from PPM Energy's Klondike III Wind Project in Sherman County, Oregon, for customers in Northern and Central California.

This is the second major wind project that PG&E has signed with PPM Energy. In 2006, PG&E began delivering 75 MW of clean, renewable wind energy as part of a 15-year agreement to purchase wind power from the Shiloh Wind Power Project in Solano County, California.

The Klondike project is currently under construction and is expected to begin delivering electricity later this year.

PG&E currently supplies 12 percent of its energy from qualifying renewable sources under California's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program. Of this amount, approximately 11 percent of the renewable energy is derived from wind. With more than 50 percent of the energy PG&E delivers to its customers coming from generating sources that emit no carbon dioxide, PG&E provides among the cleanest energy in the nation.

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[jtrockville]

1. Maryland's requirements are teeny: 3.5% from renewables in '07

12% in 2007 is commendable compared to Maryland.

[razzleberry]

2. renewables, 2007codespeak for 1930 era hydro .n/t

[jpak]

3. wrong

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/business/25solar.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

According to Mr. Wan, about 12 percent of P.G.& E.’s electricity today comes from renewable sources, divided somewhat evenly among wind, biomass, small hydropower and geothermal. (California does not count traditional large hydroelectric dams toward the quota.)

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[razzleberry]

4. does anybody have any real numbers ...

http://www.pge.com/about_us/environment/features/clean_energy.html

on this scam?

to a person in the electric power biz,
renewables --> hydro

small hydro means exactly what?